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Documentary film showing the struggle in Bulgaria under the Nazi occupation. At the end of WW2 there were 49,172 Jews. At the start of the war there were 48,565 Jews. Bulgaria was the only country in Hitler's Europe that had more Jews at the end of the war than at the beginning. The film explains how this happened. The flood of support against the Nuremberg laws, the Bulgarians who fought against the rulers, Parliament preventing sending the Jews to their deaths, the Church protecting the lives of Jews. Ultimately it was the people who caused the king of Bulgaria to change his policy towards the Jews. ...

Director : Nitsan Aviram

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 66

Language : English, Hebrew

Saving The Jews Of Bulgaria

This documentary recreates the nation-wide campaign to save Bulgaria's Jews and it contains original footage from Bulgaria.

Director : Chaim Oliver

Production Year : 1989

Duration : 56

Language : English

The Death Transport Didn't Leave

This documentry film mixes contemporary interviews with photographs and footages from the Holocaust. Man singing with guitar in front of enlarged photo of Concentration Camp. Footage of ovens, little girl in stripes showing her number. Bodies, 1940-41. Cattle cars. Hitler meeting with Bulgarian officals. Assorted newspapers, letters, documents, photographs of important people. Hitler shaking hands. Eichman trial in Jerusalem intercut with footage of transports.

Director : שמעון בן נון

Production Year : 1975

Duration : 40

Language : Russian

49, 172

סרט תיעודי. 12,000 יהודי תראקיה ומקדוניה, שסופחו בהסדר בין מלך בוריס בולגריה לבין גרמניה הנאצית, גורשו ונרצחו. לנוכח ההתנגדות העממית לגירוש נוסף, המלך בוריס חדל לשתף פעולה עם גרמניה ונעצר את דחייתם של היהודים של בולגריה גם מגירוש והכחדה. 49,172 מביא את הבריחה הדרמטית של יהודי בולגריה ואת הצלתם לאחר המלחמה של בני ארצם היהודים. חקירה עוצמתית של רדיפות וישועות מתעוררת לחיים באמצעות ניצולי השואה עצמם, מכבדת את מצילי הקהילה היהודית בבולגריה, ומוקירה כבוד למעשי האומץ ההרואיים שלהם כשהם מתריסים נגד התנודדותם המוחלטת של השלטון הנאצי.

Director : Plamen Petkov

Production Year : 2017

Duration : 61

Language : English

The Ships are Full

This documentary tells the story of a few thousands Jewish children saved from the burning in the flames of war Europe. In the period 1938 – 1944 on their way to Palestine they passed through the territory of Bulgaria, an ally of Germany of Hitler in those years. Different people helped clerks from the Bulgarian Ministries, prominent diplomats and common adventurers. It is amazing that while from Greece and Macedonia northwards through Bulgaria to the camps of death traveled echelons with predetermined dead men; and in the opposite direction from the occupied by Germany territories to Palestine, with forged...

Director : Kostadin Bonev

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 64

Language : Bulgarian, Hebrew